
Akansh Gupta
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Delhi, India
Toptal member since November 10, 2022
Akansh is a very successful, results-oriented professional with a strong interest in automation and emerging technology. He has vast expertise in customer-facing positions and a track record of success with cloud infrastructures, serverless and microservice-based environments, IaC and GitOps principles, and DevOps automation. Akansh is an open-source enthusiast, AWS certified, and committed to excellence in delivering high-quality and innovative solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
- DevOps - 6 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Git - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
- Linux - 4 years
- Bash Script - 4 years
- Ansible - 4 years
- Python - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Linux, DevOps
The most amazing...
...thing I've worked on is a widely used podcast application, developed from the ground up, with millions of users in the United States.
Work Experience
DevOps Lead
AppAcuity, Inc.
- Served as the DevOps Lead for the project with multiple accounts under the AWS Well-Architected program and obtained CIS benchmarking.
- Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) enforcement, successfully cleared all audits, and achieved SOC 2 compliance for the infrastructure.
- Designed a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan and implemented the strategy with regular backups (BCP), DR drills, and documentation.
- Introduced GitOps strategy with custom CI/CD Bitbucket pipelines to deploy Infrastructure changes through Terraform and application changes to containers.
- Conducted various POCs to bring new features like OIDC auth through Okta and AWS Cognito, Terragrunt for better IaC, centralized view of GuardDuty, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, and WAF logs, etc.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Trade Receivables Discounting Platform
- Created multi-account, multi-environment setup on AWS using AWS Copilot capable of single-click setup.
- Designed and built the cloud infrastructure that cleared network and security audits with VAPT and SOC2 compliance. Created thorough reports for the same.
- Designed a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan and implemented the strategy with regular backups (BCP), DR drills, and documentation with RTO and RPO.
- Designed serverless architecture and infrastructure for the platform using Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodePipeline services.
- Used AWS Control Tower and single sign-on (SSO) to configure multi-account setup and standardize user management.
DevOps Engineer
Fintech Product
- Configured Kubernetes clusters on GCP using Terraform, making them capable of scaling and self-healing.
- Configured multiple EKS clusters and various other AWS services to set up the project requirements.
- Set up Azure DevOps pipelines and agents for the CI/CD of the microservices.
DevOps Engineer
Podcast App
- Acted as a single DevOps engineer to design and launch a project and received an award in April 2021.
- Carried out a cost analysis of the platform to reduce the over-cloud cost by 40%.
- Recognized for good work by the client as I was involved with teams to meet demanding deadlines.
DevOps Engineer
Telecom Shopping
- Designed Ansible Playbooks for all the tools applied in the stack like Nginx, Pritunl, Jenkins, Nexus, monitoring and logging stacks, Kafka and ZooKeeper, Apache NiFi, etc.
- Designed a single-command setup that created AWS resources and required configuration with Terraform and Ansible on a single application.
- Designed customised monitoring templates on Grafana for an in-depth analysis of the stack.
DevOps Engineer
Car Rental Product
- Configured GitLab CI/CD to manage the deployment of the microservices.
- Coordinated with a team based in three countries and helped build the architecture and project submission.
- Executed the load testing with 5,000+ users per second using the application.
Experience
Fintech App
Podcast App
https://harkaudio.com/Telecom Product Platform
http://www.axiomtelecom.comCar Rental App
http://www.lumirental.com/enFintech App for Trade Receivables Discounting Platform
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
GEU - India
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
MTA Networking Fundamentals
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt, Node.js, Amazon API, PySpark, Jenkins Pipeline, React
Tools
Terraform, Jenkins, Helm, Git, Ansible, Grafana, Kibana, Amazon EKS, AWS CloudFormation, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Kong, VPN, Velero, Logstash, NGINX, RabbitMQ, ELK (Elastic Stack), AWS Batch, GitLab, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Docker Hub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Cron, Amazon Firewall, Bitbucket, CircleCI, CloudOps, Packer, AWS AppSync, Kustomize, AWS Fargate, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CodeBuild, Docker Swarm, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Amazon ElastiCache, Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF), Google Compute Engine (GCE), Vault, SonarQube, Beanstalk, Subversion (SVN), Auth0, Prisma, AWS ELB, Talend ETL, Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Apache HTTP Server, Google Workspace, Kafka Streams, Keycloak, Amazon SageMaker, Google Stackdriver
Languages
Python, Bash Script, Bash, Python 3, SQL, Groovy, JavaScript, TypeScript, Snowflake, Java
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices Architecture, Continuous Development (CD), Microservices, DevSecOps, Testing
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Docker, Amazon EC2, AWS NLB, Azure, AWS ALB, Ubuntu, DigitalOcean, Apache Kafka, OpenShift, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Knative
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Datadog, MySQL, Cloud Deployment, Redis, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud, Amazon DynamoDB, Databases, Redshift, Google Bucket, MongoDB, Redis Cache, IBM Db2, Database Architecture
Frameworks
Flask, Django, .NET, .NET Core, Spark
Other
AWS DevOps, Prometheus, Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, System Administration, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps Engineer, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Shell Scripting, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migration, SOC 2, Containers, Cloud, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Scripting, Amazon API Gateway, Clustering, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Monitoring, GitOps, Solution Design, Networking, Security, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, API Gateways, SSL, Scaling, System Architecture, Back-end, Cloud Security, GitHub Actions, Autoscaling, Virtualization, Leadership, Configuration Management, AWS VPN, AWS Marketplace, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Enterprise Architecture, TCP/IP, Monorepos, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Distributed Cloud, SecOps, Serverless, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), AWS Cloud Security, Pulumi, IT Security, BitBucket Pipelines, Azure Virtual Networks, Team Leadership, AWS WAF, Multicloud, Terraform Cloud, VPC, Application Monitoring, Argo CD, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), DNS, Data Protection, HAProxy, QA Testing, Caching, APIs, Cloudflare, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), AWS Certified Developer, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Control Tower, CTO, Computer Architecture, Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Database Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Swaps, Telemetry
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